Healthocrates is a collaborative effort by the Health Community to create and keep current a large database of knowledge about medical related items. To date this community has posted 6,000 + medical articles to this site. We are growing at the rate of 1,500 articles per month. But we need help updating and keeping our informaiton current. We ask the health community to join us by using the Wiki technology to update our exisitng articles.
We encourage others to join our community and help us improve the articles already submitted. If you have medical knowledge, experience and want to support our efforts we encourage you to become a member.
As a member you can assist Healthocrates efforts by recommending, posting, improving articles and by hosting medical discussions in our forums sections.
Help our community of volunteers build Healthocrates into the go to spot on the Internet on all medical issues.
Rules for submitting, updating or editing articles:
You must not copy text directly from the source without the authors permission
You must cite verifiable sources
You must include sources cited in the original article
Things to Avoid
Non-notable topics People frequently add pages to Healthocrates without considering whether the topic is really notable enough to go into our online medical encyclopedia. Because Healthocrates does not have the space limitations of paper-based encyclopedias, our notability policies and guidelines allow a wide range of articles - however, they do not allow any topic to be included. A particularly common special case of this is pages about people, companies or groups of people that do not assert the notability or importance of their subject, so we have decided that such pages may be speedily deleted. This can offend - so please consider whether your chosen topic is notable enough for Healthocrates, and assert (or preferably show!) the notability or importance of your article's subject if you decide it is notable enough.
Advertising Please don't try to promote your product or business. Please don't insert external links to your commercial website unless a neutral party would judge that the link truly belongs in the article; we may have articles about products like Kleenex or pepto-bismol, or notable institutions such as Harvard Medical School, but if you are writing about a product or business be sure you write from a neutral point of view and have no conflict of interest..
A single sentence or only a website link Articles need to have real content of their own.
Good research and citing your sources. Articles written out of thin air are hard to verify. Directly citing sources is an important part of building a trusted reference work. Please research with the best sources available and cite them properly. Doing this, along with not copying large amounts of the text, will help avoid any possibility of plagiarism.
Advocacy and controversial material. Please do not write articles that advocate one particular viewpoint on politics, religion, or anything else. Understand what we mean by a neutral point of view before tackling this sort of topic.
Redundant articles. Healthocrates already has a lot of articles. Before creating an article, try to make sure there isn't already an article, perhaps under a slightly different name. If an article on your topic is there, but you think people are likely to look for it under some different name or spelling, learn how to add a redirect with that name; adding needed redirects is a good way to help Healthocrates.
Extremely short articles that are just definitions. Try to write a good short paragraph that says something about the subject. We welcome good short articles, that can serve as launching pads from which others can take off. If you don't have enough material to write a good stub, you probably should not create the article.
